The boss of Amazon has told white collar staff at the e-commerce company their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence in the next few years.
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Amazon says it will reduce its workforce as AI replaces human employees - #AI #Jobs #Employment #automation #unemployment #WorkForce #Amazon #EatTheRich #billionaires #JeffBezos #HumanResources
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/business/amazon-ai-human-employees-jobs
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6/17/1916 The first legislation on insurance governing cases of accident while at work was passed in Sweden in 1901.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v12n4/v12n4p16.pdf
6/17/1980 Public Law 96-272, "Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980," enacted.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/ssir/SSI17/ssi2017.pdf
6/17/1987 House Ways & Means Committee, Memorial Tribute To Wilbur J. Cohen.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/cohentribute.html
For a short video on the life of Wilbur Cohen, including audio recorded during the memorial tribute, visit: https://social.vivaldi.net/@GuyC59/114689588839093404
6/17/2008 President Bush signed into law H.R. 6081, the “Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax (HEART) Act of 2008.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_061708.html
6/17/2019 Andrew M. Saul was sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/saul.html
6/17/2021 The President signed S. 475, #Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which became Public Law 117-17, and requires June 19 to be a legal public holiday.
https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_061721.html
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Hello Fedi,
I am an unemployed electronics technician, audio engineer, and generally adaptable and handy person with many bills to pay and feline mouths to feed.
Will solder and remix for food.
Agencies and pollsters from Australia to Britain and the U.S. are turning to online surveys in a bid to update data collection methods stuck in the 20th century without introducing new 21st century biases. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/17/world/caller-id-jobs-market/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #smartphones #jobs #unemployment #surveys #mobilephones #polls
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6/16/1917 “… delegates resolved 'that the American Medical Association declares its opposition to the institution of any plan embodying the system of compulsory contributory insurance against illness, or any other plan of compulsory insurance which provides for medical service to be rendered contributors or their dependents, provided, controlled, or regulated by any state or the Federal government'.”
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/schlabach4.html
6/16/1933 National Industrial Recovery Act set up the National Recovery Administration.
https://guides.loc.gov/national-recovery-administration
6/16/1933 The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and The Public Works Administration was established.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/franklin-delano-roosevelt-and-the-new-deal/
6/16/1933 The Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act was passed.
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/glass-steagall-act
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Nowa zajawka w trakcie szukania nowej roboty: modelarstwo. Mój pierwszy projekt: baszta 1:72 z flagą Transylwanii od zera z balsy i green stuffu. Na chwilę obecną największy problem to powierzchnia wystawowa. W środę spróbuję umieścić ją w jakimś godnym miejscu w przychodni psychiatrycznej. #woodcarving #unemployment
Despite major trade-worker unemployment, N.L. government says it's not worried
74 per cent of trade workers are currently unemployed in Newfoundland and Labrador, but with more megaprojects on the horizon, Jobs Minister Gerry Bryne isn't concerned.
#unemployment #politics #economy #jobs #Newfoundland #Labrador
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/trade-workers-unemployment-1.7560828?cmp=rss
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6/15/1936 Henry McCarthy was appointed the Regional Director (Chicago).
6/15/1937 The Social Security Board adopted its first regulation, Regulation No. 1, which governed disclosure of the records being created in the Social Security program.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reg1.html"
6/15/1966 LBJ reported:
"In the past year, through a massive program, we have tried to reach virtually every American over 65 years of age with news about medical care. We may not have reached every one of them. But more than 90% of them--between 17 and 18 million have signed up for elective medical benefits."
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/lbjoper.html
6/15/1999 The Americans Discuss Social Security project of the Pew Charitable Trust gave a copy of its Final Report to Commissioner Apfel.
https://participedia.net/case/5599
6/15/2000 SSA held Hammer Award Ceremony for six SSA special teams.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/ssa2000chapter5.html
6/15/2012 The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or #DACA, policy was implemented. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/tr/2019/III_B_amdmts.html
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Wilbur J. Cohen
(1913-1987)
Social Security Pioneer
"Wilbur J. Cohen was active in many areas of public welfare throughout his entire career. He moved to Washington after graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1934, and became Research Assistant to Executive Director Witte of President Roosevelt's cabinet-level Committee on Economic Security. This Committee drafted the original Social Security Act. In 1935 he was a member of the Committee on Public Administration of the Social Science Research Council. He headed SSA's Office of Research and Statistics. Later in his career, he served as Professor of Public Welfare Administration and as Dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan; and as Assistant Secretary for Legislation, Under-Secretary, and Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare."
Source: https://lnkd.in/eM48TrPb
The attached short video touches on highlights of this important figure's life.
Additional references:
-The Under Secretary, OASIS, AUGUST 1967: https://www.ssa.gov/history/cohenoasis.html
- Social Security 25 Years Hence, by Wilbur J. Cohen: https://www.ssa.gov/history/wc25.html
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"Since Trump started, we have yet to add 150,000 jobs or more in a month, after adjustments.
Average:
2025 = 124,000 / month
2017-2019 pre-pandemic = 177,000 / mo
2023-2024 post-pandemic = 191,000 / mo
Blocking immigrants and firing federal workers has consequences."
- D Doney
#Deportations #Detention #immigrants #Trumpcession #Layoffs #Economy #Unemployment #TrumpRegime #DOGE #Resist #USPol
Does anyone know #iowa #unemployment better than me?
It's super unclear whether my $55 from Twitch counts as "income", it's Money but the form pretty clearly seems to be referring to an employer which twitch legally is not (contractor blah blah)
From what the form is showing me I am pretty sure this 1 time per year payment is not what they're talking about?
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6/14/1907 Thomas Hopkinson Eliot was born, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/teliot.html
6/14/1935 "And it must not be overlooked that industry will receive its full measure of benefit ... [increasing] the productivity of the young by removing from their shoulders the uneven burden of caring for the old." - Senator Robert Wagner (D-NY) during Senate floor debate.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ret2.html
6/14/1948 President Truman vetoed H.J. Res. 296, saying that "If our Social Security program is to endure, it must be protected against these piecemeal attacks."
The same day, President Truman's veto of H.J. Res. 296 was overridden in the House by a vote of 298 to 75; and in the Senate by a vote of 65 (37-R, 28-D) to 12 (2-R, 10-D). Two pieces of 1948 legislation, H.R. 5052 and H.J. Res. 296, settled the argument of who was considered an employee for purposes of Social Security coverage.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/crsleghist3.html
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Correcting my sleep back to the early morning 💧
Up at noon yesterday, 9:30 today. Progress at least.
#unemployment stuff messed me up pretty bad but now that I've done it, well I don't expect any real job offers any time soon, but the unemployment part is frustrating, intentionally humiliating, and unnecessary, but eh, I can do this ^^
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6/13/1960 "After more than 3 months of deliberation, Ways and Means Committee reports Social Security amendments (H.R. 12580), including a new program of Federal grants to the States for medical services to the 'medically indigent' elderly." From: Chronology of Significant Events Leading to Enactment of Medicare https://www.ssa.gov/history/cornignappa.html
6/13/1996 SSA announced the creation of the second Direct Service Unit (DSU II) at SSA headquarters and solicited volunteers who want to move from staff positions to direct public service.
6/13/2000 SSA announced it is partnering with CommerceNet, a nonprofit consortium, to test a variety of Internet technologies to determine if they can be used by the agency to enhance customer service.
6/13/2007 U.S.-Denmark Social Security Agreement and administrative arrangement both signed in Copenhagen.
https://www.ssa.gov/international/Agreement_Pamphlets/denmark.html
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248,000 Americans filed initial jobless claims last week, unchanged from the week prior and above expectations of 242,000. Ongoing claims hit their highest level since November 2021 as weekly filings remain at an eight-month high.
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6/12/1935 The Economic Security Bill President Roosevelt transmitted to Congress in January 1935 contained the following language: "No person shall receive such old-age annuity unless . . . He is not employed by another in a gainful occupation." This was the retirement earnings test (RET) provision. On this day, the Senate Finance Committee reported its bill to the Senate--with the RET provision.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ret.html
6/12/1943 International Cooperation in Achieving Social Security address by Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman, Social Security Board, at the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, New York.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/aja643.html
6/12/1950 Debate begins in the Senate the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950. https://www.ssa.gov/history/reports/crsleghist3.html
6/12/1974 On January 1, 1975, Hawaii became the first State to have a mandated health insurance program in effect. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v38n12/v38n12p16.pdf
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-household-wealth-dropped-first-161416181.html
US household wealth dropped in first quarter as tariff concerns hit stocks
#us #jobs #report #hiring #slowdown #risk #recession #trade #trump #tariffs #consumer #retail #economy #layoffs #decline #policies #taxes #spending #cuts #economics #goods #employment #business #unemployment #usa #job #layoff #money #families #credit #score #personal
"Weekly claims for #unemployment benefits remained at their highest level in eight months during the first full week of June while the number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance on an ongoing basis reached the highest level since November 2021."
Yahoo Finance and Dept. of Labor https://finance.yahoo.com/news/continuing-jobless-claims-reach-highest-level-since-november-2021-initial-claims-hover-at-8-month-high-131116759.html
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